TWO BATAK SWORDS AND SHEATHS: one with carved horn hilt with bifurcated tip, carved with hatched lozenges and quatrefoils, the other with white metal band about the grip with applied circlets of twisted white metal, the sheaths bound at intervals with white metal bands

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TWO BATAK SWORDS AND SHEATHS: one with carved horn hilt with bifurcated tip, carved with hatched lozenges and quatrefoils, the other with white metal band about the grip with applied circlets of twisted white metal, the sheaths bound at intervals with white metal bands
66cm. and 59.5cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Achim Sibeth, The Batak, 1991, p.164, fig.213

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